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Dozens of bodies remain unclaimed days after India train crash

A man enters a deep freezer truck filled with bodies to try to identify a family member at a hospital in Bhubaneswar in the eastern Indian state of Odisha [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]

Indian authorities have made fervent appeals to families to help identify dozens of unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries, days after 275 people were killed in the country’s deadliest rail crash in at least two decades.

The disaster struck on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha.

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